std::ranges::min_element - cppreference.com (original) (raw)

1. Finds the smallest element in the range [first, last).

2. Same as (1), but uses r as the source range, as if using ranges::begin(r) as first and ranges::end(r) as last.

The function-like entities described on this page are algorithm function objects (informally known as niebloids), that is:

• Explicit template argument lists cannot be specified when calling any of them.
• None of them are visible to argument-dependent lookup.
• When any of them are found by normal unqualified lookup as the name to the left of the function-call operator, argument-dependent lookup is inhibited.

Contents

• 1 Parameters
• 2 Return value
• 3 Complexity
• 4 Possible implementation
• 5 Example
• 6 See also

[edit] Parameters

[edit] Return value

Iterator to the smallest element in the range [first, last). If several elements in the range are equivalent to the smallest element, returns the iterator to the first such element. Returns the iterator that compares equal to last if the range is empty (i.e., first == last).

[edit] Complexity

Exactly max(N - 1, 0) comparisons, where N = ranges::distance(first, last).

[edit] Possible implementation

struct min_element_fn { template<std::forward_iterator I, std::sentinel_for S, class Proj = std::identity, std::indirect_strict_weak_order<std::projected<I, Proj>> Comp = ranges::less> constexpr I operator()(I first, S last, Comp comp = {}, Proj proj = {}) const { if (first == last) return last; auto smallest = first; while (++first != last) if (std::invoke(comp, std::invoke(proj, *first), std::invoke(proj, *smallest))) smallest = first; return smallest; }   template<ranges::forward_range R, class Proj = std::identity, std::indirect_strict_weak_order< std::projected<ranges::iterator_t, Proj>> Comp = ranges::less> constexpr ranges::borrowed_iterator_t operator()(R&& r, Comp comp = {}, Proj proj = {}) const { return (*this)(ranges::begin(r), ranges::end(r), std::ref(comp), std::ref(proj)); } };   inline constexpr min_element_fn min_element;

[edit] Example

#include #include #include #include   int main() { namespace ranges = std::ranges;   std::array v{3, 1, -13, 1, 3, 7, -13};   auto iterator = ranges::min_element(v.begin(), v.end()); auto position = ranges::distance(v.begin(), iterator); std::cout << "min element is v[" << position << "] == " << *iterator << '\n';   auto abs_compare = [](int a, int b) { return (std::abs(a) < std::abs(b)); }; iterator = ranges::min_element(v, abs_compare); position = ranges::distance(v.begin(), iterator); std::cout << "|min| element is v[" << position << "] == " << *iterator << '\n'; }

Output:

min element is v[2] == -13 |min| element is v[1] == 1

[edit] See also